{"id":615507,"date":"2026-04-20T00:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T00:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/615507\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T00:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T00:47:09","slug":"cup-series-points-leaders-after-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/615507\/","title":{"rendered":"Cup Series Points Leaders After Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday\u2019s Cup Series race at Kansas Speedway saw plenty of domination from the likes of Denny Hamlin, Christopher Bell and Tyler Reddick. With Kyle Larson and Bubba Wallace also faring well, many drivers at the top of the NASCAR standings today strengthened their positioned even more.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s take you right into the NASCAR points standings today after Kansas. As always, we\u2019ve noted in our table where the cutline is right now for The Chase through nine points races this season. We\u2019ve also included the biggest movers int he NASCAR standings this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Biggest Risers<\/p>\n<p>Todd Gilliland \u2014 +3<\/p>\n<p>Brad Keselowski \u2014 +2<\/p>\n<p>Austin Dillon \u2014 +2<\/p>\n<p>Chase Briscoe \u2014 +2<\/p>\n<p>Hamlin\/Larson\/Hocevar\/Preece\/Cindric\/Chastain\/Herbst \u2014 +1<\/p>\n<p>Biggest Fallers<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Busch \u2014 -3<\/p>\n<p>Joey Logano \u2014 -2<\/p>\n<p>Shane van Gisbergen \u2014 -2<\/p>\n<p>Blaney\/Elliott\/Bell\/Buescher\/Suarez \u2014 -1<\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/nascar\/adventhealth-400-winners-losers-nascar-race-today-kansas\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"(opens in a new tab)\">AdventHealth 400 Winners, Losers and Analysis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASCAR Points Standings Right Now: Cup Series Points Leaders after Kansas<\/p>\n<p>RankDriverPointsPoints Behind1Tyler Reddick457\u20142Denny Hamlin352-1053Ryan Blaney337-1204Ty Gibbs319-1385Kyle Larson314-1436Chase Elliott305-1527William Byron275-1828Bubba Wallace275-1829Brad Keselowski264-19310Christopher Bell261-19611Chris Buescher259-19812Carson Hocevar237-22013Ryan Preece235-22214Joey Logano225-23215Chase Briscoe214-24316 \u2013 CutlineDaniel Suarez210-24717Austin Cindric197-13 behind Suarez18Shane van Gisbergen178-32 behind Suarez19Michael McDowell174-36 behind Suarez20Ross Chastain164-46 behind Suarez21AJ Allmendinger162-48 behind Suarez22Zane Smith149-61 behind Suarez23Todd Gilliland147-63 behind Suarez24Erik Jones147-63 behind Suarez25Austin Dillon145-65 behind Suarez26Josh Berry138-72 behind Suarez27Kyle Busch133-77 behind Suarez28Riley Herbst132-78 behind Suarez29John H. Nemechek126-84 behind Suarez30Ricky Stenhouse Jr123-87 behind Suarez31Noah Gragson113-97 behind Suarez32Ty Dillon99-111 behind Suarez33Connor Zilisch92-118 behind Suarez34Cole Custer88-122 behind Suarez35Cody Ware65-145 behind Suarez36Alex Bowman43-167 behind Suarez<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/nascar\/nascar-results-today-kansas-adventhealth-400-winner-nascar-cup-series-stage-results\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"(opens in a new tab)\">Official 2026 NASCAR Cup Series Results at Kansas Speedway<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img alt=\"avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5578.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-70 photo\" height=\"70\" width=\"70\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\tMatt  Johnson  is  Senior  Editor  of  NFL  and  College  Football  for  Sportsnaut.  His  work,  including  weekly  NFL  and  college  &#8230; More about <a class=\"more-bio\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/author\/wisconsinboymakesgoodincali\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday\u2019s Cup Series race at Kansas Speedway saw plenty of domination from the likes of Denny Hamlin, Christopher&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,8354,82],"class_list":["post-615507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-cup-series","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}